6:59 p.m.
Hi all (especially Roland who has been so helpful),
I’ve resumed trying to troubleshoot this. Are we absolutely, positively sure the ISO on
the website is set up correctly? Since this last email I have tried dd imaging it (after
checking sha256sum) into several devices and booting on several machines. It won’t boot
via legacy/BIOS on any of these machines. If I use the “alternative” method available from
the Windows “Rufus” utility, it can get part of the way through booting before complaining
of a missing EXFAT kernel module.
I have also tried burning the image to CD-R. When I booted from it I saw a number of
errors related to bad sectors on the CD, but it eventually continued through the
installation. After it was finished, rebooting to the installed hard drive didn’t work; it
says it isn’t bootable, although the expected partition map seems to be there.
I’m going to try to burn it again in case I had a bad CD-R. I’ve tried to do it via my
Mac, though, and it says the ISO image is invalid. This raises a red flag for me. Are
there alternate installation methods I can try?
Thanks,
Jarett
On Dec 21, 2019, at 8:26 AM, Roland Fehrenbacher <rf(a)q-leap.de>
wrote:
>>>>> "J" == jarett <jarett(a)bioteam.net> writes:
J> Yes, I've also tried it on a OneMix 3S Yoga laptop. It doesn't
J> appear bootable on that machine either. It has a pretty generic
J> Aptio BIOS so I don't think anything "strange" would going on
J> with its boot process. I've tried imaging both a 16GB USB2 stick
J> and a 128GB USB3 stick with the dd method on the website and
J> neither are bootable.
Hmm, I'm really running out of ideas now. Just downloaded the installer
once more myself, burned the ISO on a stick, plugged it into my laptop
and booted just fine from it. So the ISO is definitely OK. Hope you'll
find the culprit.
J> On Fri, 2019-12-20 at 18:43 +0100, Roland Fehrenbacher wrote:
J> "J" == Jarett DeAngelis <
J> jarett(a)bioteam.net
>> writes:
J> Secure Boot is turned off, yes. Again, the puzzling thing is
J> that I can easily boot off other ISOs written to USB with no
J> issues.
J> Sure that's interesting but unfortunately doesn't help. Many
J> head-nodes
J> were set up with this image, so it's something peculiar about
J> your stick
J> or the HP workstations. Do you have another type of machine
J> to try this on?
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